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MacVickers was captured by the alien Europan when they blasted his ship. Now he’s damned to work the alien mines until death takes him. But MacVickers ain't the kind of guy to buckle down; he’s going to get even.

When Rod Carver climbed the glacier seeking for rare lichen, he hardly expected to find himself leading a human rebellion against mechanical overlords.

When his father died and the lawyer delivered a letter to young Atwood, it was the start of interstellar journey seeking the mysterious element Xarite. A unique material that can cure Earthly diseases and may be the key to saving a race of strange aliens. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Ray Cummings' classic science fiction heroic tale.

The great starships cruise the voids of space seeding new worlds. Each year the multi-generational ships send their children down to semi-civilised worlds to face the survival challenge that will either kill them or usher them into adulthood. It's time for Mia to start the challenge, but the people on the world selected for her are hostile to the people from the ships and oppress all women. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Down to the Worlds of Men by Alexei Panshin.

Eleven unabridged stories from the golden age of science fiction.

Seven unabridged stories from the classic golden age of science fiction. Stories covering alternate time lines, new forms of time travel, alien worlds in danger, and barbarians that aren’t what they seem. Stories from H. Beam piper, Lee Archer, Jesse Bone and more. The titles of the stories included are: 'Dearest', 'He Walked Around Horses', 'Impact', 'Lease to Doomsday', 'Police Operation', 'Time Payment', 'To Choke an Ocean'.

Thomas, the faithful servant of the scientist Leland, places a desperate call through to his master's friends, begging they come up to the Leland mansion to find and rescue the missing Leland. What follows in an amazing adventure in the super science of yesteryear, where sanity and understanding will be challenged.

Verkan Vall and behind him the entire Paratime Police organisation work to keep the other time lines safe from contamination while at the same time allowing resources to be extracted back to the home time line. One of the time lines has a problem: a Venusian Nighthound has been taken back by someone who should have known better, to a time line in the 1940s. Worse, it's escaped to cause havoc amongst the farm stock. Verkan Vall has to drop onto that line and eliminate this terrible beast before its discovery corrupts the time line.

In this volume of the series of short science fiction stories we discover assassins, the dangers of centralisation, escapes through time, evolving AI’s and the depths of reality. The stories in this collection were written by J. F. Bone, H Beam Piper, Fritz Leiber and Fitz-James O’Brien.

When the aliens arrived on Earth they brought peace. Everywhere they went a wave of calm understanding followed behind. Everyone was happy, everyone was content. The aliens promised to share their technology, man would be able to reach the stars. Danial Matson seemed to be the only man on Earth who didn’t fall in line, the only man who saw something darker in their motives. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Bone’s sci-fi classic.

When the driver refused to deliver Shorthouse to the door of the rundown mansion because he was afraid, Shorthouse realised the secret-shrouded contract he was carrying was the centre of a very strange mission. His boss had demanded secrecy and warned him of the danger involved with the visit he was to make. Now he was stuck here, miles from the nearest help with night approaching.

In the far future the ruler of the world is losing as the rebels fight their way into his palace. He retreats upwards to the room where his newly developed time machine sits waiting. His plan is to jump back in time to recruit an unstoppable army which he’ll use to take back the entire world. Of course, plans don’t always come off without a hitch.

In the far future the sun has died and the darkness has become the abode of monsters. Humanity has been driven back to its last redoubt, an eight mile high pyramid of indestructible metal. From the observatory at the peak of the pyramid the Monstruwacans observe the surrounding Night Land to detect and monitor the huge monstrous forces that surround the redoubt. When a young observer telepath starts hearing a woman’s voice in his head he realises that somewhere out there in the dark, there are other humans.

They seeded the new world with everything to get life started. A few thousand years later a lone starship’s engines fail, marooning the crew and passengers. The planet is a nightmare of giant mushroom forests and insects grown to monstrous killer proportions.

In this volume of the series of short science fiction stories we discover robot lawmen, psionic aliens, evil scientists and alien super weapons. The stories are: 'Arm of the Law' by Harry Harrison, 'Graveyard of Dreams' by H Beam Piper, 'Survival Type' by JF Bone, 'The Black Lamp' by SP Meek, 'The Bluff of the Hawk' by Anthony Gilmore and 'Third Planet' by Murray Leinster.

Tensions on Earth are reaching crisis point, with opposed super powers on the very brink of full scale nuclear war, when a scout ship exploring space discovers an inhabitable third planet in a remote star system. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this classic tale from the golden age of science fiction.

Hunter Hume was kicked from the Star Pilot’s Guild and now scrapes a living guiding rich clients onto unpopulated worlds to hunt the wildlife. When scouting a new world Hume spotted something unusual and saw an opportunity to make money. In a devilish deal with an underworld kingpin Hume leads a safari into the jungle world of Jumala, and into a terrifying situation he never expected.

Hawk Carse, pioneer, explorer, and crusader for justice escapes the asteroid base of Dr Ku Sui thinking the evil scientist was defeated. After a mammoth space-suited escape back to civilisation, the horrible truth emerges. Not only is the Doctor still alive, but his agents are already working to discover Hawk’s hidden base.

In this volume of the series of short science fiction stories we discover new sapient races, a race to Mars, planets disintegrating, psionic interlopers, hidden ancient worlds, explosive exploits and time travel. The stories are: 'Atom Drive' by Charles Louis Fontenay, 'Hot Planet' by Hal Clement, 'Nobel Redman' by Jesse Franklin Bone, 'Seed of the Arctic Ice' by H. G. Winter, 'Silver Dome' by Harl Vincent, 'The Vortex Blaster' by Edward Elmer Smith and 'Time and Time Again' by H. Beam Piper.

Lockley was working in the mountains on a survey mission when an alien spaceship smashed into a nearby lake. The Earth shook, and the people fled as the aliens swept the ground for miles in every direction with a beam weapon that induced mind-numbing terror and paralysis. Instead of running like everyone else, Lockley realises he has to go towards the alien menace to rescue the woman he loves....